{"id":42190,"date":"2018-01-05T20:26:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42190"},"modified":"2018-01-05T20:26:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:26:17","slug":"united-states-suspends-security-assistance-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42190","title":{"rendered":"United States suspends security assistance to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, Jan. 5 (TNS):<\/strong> The United States says it is suspending security assistance to Pakistan targeting the Coalition Support Fund that the US pays to Pakistan to reimburse it for its counter-terrorism operations.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after President Trump\u2019s baseless allegations against Pakistan rejected by Civil and Military leadership and all political parties with one voice.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan maintains that the assistance it has received from the U.S. was mainly reimbursement for supporting U.S.-led coalition forces that invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to topple the Taliban regime.<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert announcing the decision at a news conference in Washington said the assistance is suspended until Pakistan takes decisive action against the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network that are targeting U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta questioned the decision, saying it risks pushing Pakistan toward a closer relationship with China and Russia &#8212; US adversaries that have been strengthening their economic ties with the Pakistani government in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jan. 5 (TNS): The United States says it is suspending security assistance to Pakistan targeting the Coalition Support Fund that the US pays to Pakistan to reimburse it for its counter-terrorism operations. The move comes after President Trump\u2019s baseless allegations against Pakistan rejected by Civil and Military leadership and all political parties with one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[932,304],"class_list":["post-42190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-washington","tag-international","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42192,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42190\/revisions\/42192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}